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Immunity Before the African Court of Justice & Human & Peoples Rights—The Potential Outlier

As is clear from our prior coverage of the issue, the availability of jurisdictional or defensive immunities is ever-present in discussions of how to ensure accountability for…

Jul. 10, 2014 Beth Van Schaack

Autonomy, “Killer Robots,” and Human Control in the Use of Force – Part II

[Editor’s Note: This is Part II of a two-part guest post from Paul Scharre, a fellow and Project Director for the 20YY Warfare Initiative at the Center for a New American…

Jul. 9, 2014 Paul Scharre

Autonomy, “Killer Robots,” and Human Control in the Use of Force – Part I

[Editor’s Note: This is Part I of a two-part guest post from Paul Scharre, a fellow and Project Director for the 20YY Warfare Initiative at the Center for a New American…

Jul. 9, 2014 Paul Scharre

Immunities and Criminal Prosecution within the United States & Beyond

The African Union’s controversial effort to grant sitting heads-of-state and “other senior state officials” immunity before the proposed new African criminal chambers (see…

Jul. 9, 2014 Beth Van Schaack

Social Science Data on Public Reactions to Drone Strikes and Civilian Casualties

One of the hats I wear is that of a social scientist. I don’t often write at Just Security in that capacity, but recent empirical research — on public attitudes toward…

Jul. 3, 2014 Ryan Goodman

The Stakes of al-Bahlul, Nine Months Later…

This past Monday marked nine months since the en banc oral argument in al-Bahlul v. United States, in which the D.C. Circuit is considering whether military commissions at Guantánamo…

Jul. 3, 2014 Steve Vladeck

Fifth Circuit on Extraterritorial Application of Fourth and Fifth Amendments

On the heels of this morning’s Fourth Circuit decision in the Abu Ghraib case comes another significant circuit-level decision–this one from the Fifth Circuit. The…

Jun. 30, 2014 Steve Vladeck

The importance (and difficulty) of the Stimson Task Force transparency recommendations . . . and a couple of legal corrections

Like Steve, I strongly recommend to Just Security readers the report on drone policy that the Stimson Task Force published yesterday. The report is very thoughtful and balanced,…

Jun. 27, 2014 Marty Lederman

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Armed Conflict

Immunity Before the African Court of Justice & Human & Peoples Rights—The Potential Outlier

Autonomy, “Killer Robots,” and Human Control in the Use of Force – Part II

Autonomy, “Killer Robots,” and Human Control in the Use of Force – Part I

Immunities and Criminal Prosecution within the United States & Beyond

Social Science Data on Public Reactions to Drone Strikes and Civilian Casualties

The Stakes of al-Bahlul, Nine Months Later…

Fifth Circuit on Extraterritorial Application of Fourth and Fifth Amendments

The importance (and difficulty) of the Stimson Task Force transparency recommendations . . . and a couple of legal corrections

Analysis of the Stimson Drone Task Force Report

Report and Recommendations from the Stimson Task Force on U.S. Drone Policy

You Can’t Have an “Associated Force” with No Core

The OLC’s Drone Memo and International Law’s Ascendance